Thanks everyone! wow, I'm certainly glad I don't have to take it down, return it, buy a new one, and have it re-installed. Big relief. We've been looking at this house so long without the weathervane perhaps it is just going to take some time to adjust to the bling factor of being the only thing that looks 'finished' about the house right now. It should be already starting to patina as we speak. I expect by move in it will already be pretty brown. Thanks again for the input and nice compliments! Loloauren, I was totally second guessing myself! I will try to stop. ;)

Stayin ...Not that its just a house.. I'm saying relax somewhat because I dont believe it to be that bad( personally). I would start the beams where the walls meet the rafters. I believe you first said this was about 14 feet. The thing thats hard is not knowing where your windows lie in the upper gable. I wouldntstart the beams till about 48" from the walls to stay out of the way from the trapezoid windows. Study it and lay out the spacing on the floor to help. Uplighting can be put on top of the beams to add lighting effects as well. Id suggest looking at as many books and magazines or sites for some other inspiration if you have the time. Search great room pictures etc. or beam ceiling pics and see if you find some ideas or pictures that might give you some level of comfort. Good luck and as they say when you get lemons....Make some lemonade! Im sure you will be fine and look back on it with less stress.

I think if you can save your barn, you should try. It's sad to see barns go. We bought our farm 5 years ago, and have a barn, corn crib, and a few other outbuilding. We are also restoring the house, so we haven't done much to the barn, except tearing down a metal building that the PO attached to the back. The rain was rotting the barn siding where the roof of this nasty metal barn met the old barn. Our barn has good bones, but the skin is just horrible, because the PO just let it go. :( We have to do things ourselves, so my husband just took down a barn that was gorgeous, but the owners (big time farmers) wanted it off this piece of vacant land due to the taxes! :( It made me sick, but luckily, my husband was the one to take it down. He salvaged the siding, and beams and other pieces, and we will use the siding to replace the siding on our barn. I want the barn to remain wood, so this works great. My fil also wanted his gorgeous barn down about 8 years ago, and my dh did that too and kept all the wood. The farmer that owned the barn that my dh just took down, also has 1 more and possibly 2 more that he wants gone, so we are really lucky there. He also has a gorgeous old home with curved top windows and awesome trim, that is need of some repair, that he wants to tear down!! It just makes me sick! Anyway, is there any possible way that you could find a barn to take down and use the wood from that to fix anything on your siding? Then, you will just have to worry about the roof. Good luck with your decision. I'd try everything possible to save your barn though if you can!

With that much invested, just wait. Try some of these strategies like lighting, adding accent colors and stuff to the room. Live with it a while. If it doesn't grow on you, then decide. Money is too tight for me to hire a repaint. I've had three experiences to relate. One day while I was at work, my dad painted a room for me in my new home with a color I had carefully chosen beforehand. Got home, saw pepto bismol but no way was I ever going to be able to repaint right away due to dad's pride and happiness. I actually joined this board way back then posting for advice on how to tone it down. You can tone down a color you hate by matching it with similar colors close in tone. That's what I did with my room. I never loved it, but it became tolerable, maybe even pleasant. Second instance, my landlady went paint shopping with me and helped me paint my back bedroom. She bought what I thought was a baby poo color for her own bedroom. Even after painting it, I wasn't in love with it, but once she got all the furniture and the matching bedspread, and art in there, I must say it looked FABULOUS. Like a total different reaction from me from when I saw the paint chip and sample on the wall. It related so well to everything else in the room it was a fabulous choice. As for myself and my back bedroom, I LOVE my color on the walls, but my carpet makes it skew blue and I wanted more grey. I'm also not in love with it with my furniture. I like it though, I can live without perfection. It is so much better than the wall color was before, and it is adequate for what I want it to do. In fact, I wanted the color to do so much that the perfect color may not even be out there. My expectations were a tad high. I say, make do and then if after a while it just makes you unhappy all the time, then if you have the time and money, repaint. I lived with carpet and wall color and wallpaper in my master bedroom for 12 years that I hated. We called the master bedroom "the aquarium" because the teal carpet and trim was so cloying. But we had so many other projects to do at the house that room never got its makeover. Part of the reason was the previous owners painted all the trim a teal color and it had a LOT of trim, including a bay window and seat and folding closet doors, all teal. I worked with it as best I could. I had a "Miami Vice" bedroom, lol!